Former Saints Media Careers

[ART]

Matt Le Tissier's recent Tweets drew my attention to the fast developing media careers of 2 former Saints players, namely Kevin Davies and Danny Higginbothan.

 

Have others noted the quality in their football knowledge and how much they owe to their time with the Saints for so much in their careers. I really enjoy their accounts of the inner workings of life with the Saints and how they continuously plug the achievements of the Academy and players. Both have had regular spots on Talksport and Kevin's getting more and more involved with SKYSports, probably with help from his good mate Le Tiss.

 

Kevin has been writing regularly every week on life inside football in the Mirror. His articles and thinking are top notch. This father of 4 really has a good brain, a good heart and puts in hours of his time for charity besides still playing at Preston.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kevin-davies-column-behind-scenes-2076157

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kevin-davies-premier-league-transfers-2136981

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kevin-davies-reveals-what-transfer-2243742?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

Kevin Davies plans to put forward to Greg Dyke his ideas of putting right what have been forgotten about development of football at school, schoolboy, and local level.

 

Now Danny Higginbotham has started a column at

 

http://twentyfour7football.com/grass-roots-is-the-root-of-the-problem-16044

Giving his thoughts on how to put things right in English football. But as a radio guest he talks good sense besides his love of fishing as opposed to golf played by most players, ex players.

[Turkish]

Surely every ex players ambition is to follow that trail blazer Jason Cundy and get themselves a slot on talk sport.

[Lallana's Left Peg]

Surely every ex players ambition is to follow that trail blazer Jason Cundy and get themselves a slot on talk sport.

 

Despite everything about them meaning I must surely find them annoying, I actually quite enjoy the Jason Cundy and Andy Goldstein show on TalkSport.

 

I'm sure they'll be delighted with my endorsement and both be entirely validated.

[Turkish]

Despite everything about them meaning I must surely find them annoying, I actually quite enjoy the Jason Cundy and Andy Goldstein show on TalkSport.

 

I'm sure they'll be delighted with my endorsement and both be entirely validated.

 

Of all the people on talksport I think that Adrian Durham and Alan Brazil would make excellent contributors to this forum.

[VectisSaint]

There is a lot of sense in Higgy's article, experiences I have seen for myself. The schools of excellence and academies are all very well, but taking the best kids out of the grassroots game at such early ages is part of why the game is dying in this country. Not only do the best kids need to have fun playing with their mates rather than with a bunch of other promising youngsters, but the other kids who are not so promising need the good players around to help them and their local teams. They also benefit from the parents of the better players who are often enthusiastic enough to be coaches and helpers in local kids football clubs, take the child away to play in academies and you lose the parents as well. I've seen this first hand where local teams effectively fold because they lose one or two of their best players. The academies and schools of excellence prohibit their players playing for any team other than the academy. It may be OK in bigger cities, but in rural areas particularly it can have a devastating effect. But the FA bods just don't see this and only have thoughts for their "elite" players. Kids need to just enjoy playing football without too much involvement from coaches, unfortunately society nowadays does not encourage the ad hoc kickabouts that many of us enjoyed in our youth, everything has to be organised to the nth degree with adults supervising everything and stifling enjoyment. Higgy sees some of the things that are wrong and well done to him, the difficult bit though is doing something that positively changes the status quo by de-assembling some of the structure that has been put in place in the last 20 years. Charter Standard clubs do little or nothing for kids enjoying playing football.

[chocco boxo]

Shearer is crap and Perry Groves talks sense, Dowie not sure? Andy Townsend is a utter knob on TV.